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Senior Technical Advisor, HIV Care and Treatment- PATH Kenya
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PATH Kenya, seeks a Senior Technical Advisor (STA), HIV
Care and Treatment, to provide strategic leadership and technical oversight
for integrated HIV/TB care and treatment services across the project counties.
The STA will oversee county work-plan implementation and work closely with
Technical Advisors to maintain high-quality service delivery, monitor
performance, and ensure timely corrective action. The role will also mentor
project staff and implementing teams and strengthen their capacity at the
project, county, sub-county, and facility levels.
The STA will lead transition and sustainability efforts with
the County Department of Health to strengthen local ownership, institutional
capacity, and continuity of services. Reporting to the Deputy Chief of Party
(DCOP), the STA will also serve as the project's primary liaison with the
County Department of Health.
Contract term: This is a six-month fixed-term
contract, with the possibility of extension subject to the availability of
donor funding.
Duty stations: Nyamira County (one position) and
Vihiga County (one position)
Candidates are expected to specify their preferred county
in their application
Key Responsibilities
- Implementation
leadership: Lead and oversee integrated HIV/TB service delivery at
project-supported health facilities, including elimination of vertical
transmission, in accordance with national and global guidelines.
- Program
strategy: Contribute to project work-plan development and
implementation design. Support evidence-based, integrated service-delivery
strategies that address gaps in testing, linkage, retention, and viral
load suppression and align with project milestones.
- Health
systems strengthening: Collaborate with ministries of health, local
governments, and non-governmental organizations to build local capacity
and improve facility-to-community referral networks.
- Sustainability
and transition: Strengthen county ownership and the sustainability of
HIV/TB services by engaging county leadership; supporting county technical
working groups, transition teams, and planning forums; and advancing
county-specific transition roadmaps through increased domestic resource
allocation and accountability.
- Performance
monitoring and compliance: Ensure the project meets donor targets and
milestones, oversee data-driven quality-improvement initiatives, and
contribute to technical reports.
- Project
visibility, learning, and knowledge sharing: Lead the documentation
and dissemination of success stories, technical papers, lessons learned,
promising practices, to enhance project visibility.
- County
Focal Person for the Project: Serve as the project’s County Focal
Person, providing day-to-day supervision and management of the project
staff based in the county, and ensuring effective coordination,
accountability, and operational support.
- Additional
duties: Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor.
Required Qualifications
- Education:
Holder of a MBChB or equivalent, with a Master of Public Health (MPH), or
an equivalent qualification.
- Experience:
At least seven years of progressively responsible public-health
experience, including the design, implementation, and oversight of county
health systems-strengthening programs. At least five of these years must
be in a senior supervisory role within the Ministry of Health or a
donor-funded or PEPFAR-supported HIV/AIDS program.
- Technical
expertise: Demonstrated expertise in current integrated HIV
guidelines, HIV/TB program performance metrics, donor compliance
requirements, and Kenya’s devolved health-system architecture. The
candidate must be able to navigate and engage national, county, sub-county,
and facility-level health structures effectively to strengthen program
implementation and sustainability.
- Core
competencies:
- Strong
analytical, problem-solving, capacity-building, communication, and
interpersonal skills.
- Ability
to build, develop, and maintain effective relationships with county
government leaders and staff, colleagues, private-sector stakeholders,
and partners.
- Excellent
written and verbal communication skills.
Apply: Senior
Technical Advisor, HIV Care and Treatment- PATH Kenya